What was your first distro? (piefed.world)

submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol

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[-] Tabooki@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Slackware

[-] johntash@eviltoast.org 1 points 5 months ago

Mine was also slackware. I think I broke my windows (95? 98?) installing it.

[-] Tabooki@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I came from deskview and then OS/2

[-] RangerHere@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Hehe, I, too, broke my windows 95 installing Slackware.

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